Supporting Children with Psychologist and Play Therapist Paula Noble

Understanding Body Matters Podcast

On this week’s episode I am super excited to be introducing you to our next special guest Principle Psychologist of Noble Psychology and Play therapist, Paula Noble. Paula is a registered psychologist and play therapist, with over 30 years’ experience working with children, adolescents, and parents. Paula’s early career started as a teacher in primary schools working in both Australia and Singapore. She then became a registered psychologist, working as a School Psychologist at Schools such as Cranbrook and Shore in Sydney, providing individual therapy, group intervention, educational assessments, as well as supporting school systems. Paula is also a member of the Australian Psychological Society and College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists and is a certified Lifeline counsellor. A Board Approved Supervisor with AHPRA, Paula provides supervision for provisional and registered psychologists.

Currently, Paula works in private practice at Noble Psychology in North Manly where she provides therapy services, psychological, educational, and psychometric assessments, along with diagnostic assessments for ADHD, ASD and Specific Learning Disorders. Working with children and adolescents implementing CBT skills, emotional regulation techniques, sand tray work, play therapy, and behaviour modification techniques. She is also trained in the Gottman Institute’s Emotion Coaching for parents, providing emotion coaching techniques to assist parents with supporting their children. A psychologist, teacher, parent and grandparent, Paula has a wealth of experience working with children and young people. She is also an avid swimmer, for her physical and mental health, loving long-distance ocean swimming.

On this week’s episode Paula will be speaking about her experiences and practice working with children, adolescence, and parents all over the world including in the U.S. Providing professional support including counselling support, parenting strategies, a range of psychometric assessments, diagnosis, and intervention. Highlighting that as a child psychologist, there is so much value in supporting children at young ages especially in overcoming early challenges, building resilience, working on emotional regulation, fostering positive relationships, and learning how to thrive. So please welcome our next special guest, Paula!

Podcast Summary:

1. The effects of COVID on this generation of children

2. The impact of mobile phones, social media, and self-image for children

3. The algorithms encouraging eating disorder, body image and self-harm content

4. Supporting learning or developmental difficulties in children

5. Allowing a child to feel seen, heard and cared for

6. Supporting parents

Links to Paula:

Noble Psychology Website: https://noblepsychology.com.au/

Links from the episode and to BodyMatters:

BodyMatters Australasia Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bodymatters.com.au/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

BodyMatters Instagram: @bodymattersau

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